The Luck of the Weissensteiners
In the sleepy town of Bratislava in 1933 a romantic girl falls for a bookseller from Berlin .
Greta Weissensteiner , daughter of a Jewish weaver , slowly settles in with the Winkelmeier clan just as the developments in Germany start to make waves in Europe and re-draw the visible and invisible borders . The political climate in the multifaceted cultural society of disintegrating Czechoslovakia becomes more complex and affects relations between the couple and the families . The story follows the group of characters throughout the war with its predictable and also its unexpected turns and events and the equally hard times after . What makes The Luck of the Weissensteiners so extraordinary is the chance to consider the many different people who were never in concentration camps , never in the military , yet who nonetheless had their own indelible Holocaust experiences . This is a wide-ranging exploration of the connections between social location , personal integrity and , as the title says , luck .
Sebastian
Sebastian is the story of a young man who has his leg amputated before World War I . When his father is drafted to the war it falls on to him to run the family grocery store in Vienna , to grow into his responsibilities , bear loss and uncertainty and hopefully find love .
Sebastian Schreiber , his extended family , their friends and the store employees experience the ‘ golden days ’ of pre-war Vienna and the timed of the war and the end of the Monarchy while trying to make a living and to preserve what they hold dear .